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anyone think this movie's rating here is just too low?

posted 16 years ago by kusho911
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omg, this movie was good! in fact, too good. i really think its much better than saving private ryan. the acting was powerful and spectacular. who cares if there was too much melee or hand to hand combat. all that matters is that it suceeds as a movie. and here it was over the top sucess. the rating should be higher than saving private ryan. unfortunately, because its not an american movie, i guess that's supposed to mean the movie isn't very good or only for an obscure audience.

to sum it, this was the best war movie ever. it's rating should like 9.5.

[–] MrFargo 16 years ago

I agree that it deserves more.

[–] jtjcp88 16 years ago

From what I can remember, the problem I found with this film was that the Brothers are just too *beep* good at fighting, they must single handedly kill half the N Korean army, it's just a bit over the top. Apart from that I loved it.

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[–] Giles18 16 years ago

i completley agree but saving private ryan is well known and brotherhood not so much. It's a big shame really i think this is much better than Saving private Ryan
although thats still a great film, this film really moves me especially the relationship between the brothers.

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[–] barbarossa4188 13 years ago

I do. The Spielberg's juden are voting it down.

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[–] joekinplaya 13 years ago

I watched a lot of war films and studied a lot of wars from WWII to post-WWII to now. I wouldn't say Tae Guk Gi is the best, but it's definitely one of the best war films. If we're counting mini-series and TV shows as films to, I would vote Band of Brothers up there along with a few others like Full Metal Jacket... But FMJ was more of a satire than an actual war film.

Tae Guk Gi is a war film that is also meant to be an anti-war film. People say Koreans are soft as baby powder and just are good at math... but we learn from our mistakes and we have a bloody history. This film didn't depict enough napalm strikes. Napalm was one of the most intimidating arsenal the North Koreans witnessed, completely obliterating many villages and towns.

Saving Private Ryan was great, don't get me wrong... but it's not the best. Nowhere near it. I loved it but people look at it with too much bias. Everyone has it in their heads that Nazi Germany is truly evil. No one knew that Nazis committed genocide back then until after most of German forces were pushed back to a corner. Now, the film doesn't necessary focus on that but still; that's the type of bias and bravado this film receives. It's easy to sit through and listen to Band of Brothers characters say racial slurs about Germans because we all know what happened already. But SPR wasn't real for me. I mean, this film Tae Guk Gi isn't a real story either, just a depiction of what happened in the war through the eyes of the brothers... but Tae Guk Gi was real for me and SPR just wasn't despite SPR's great depiction of realistic warfare.